Mortarboard, gown, hood and lace come
guide me in learning, in ascension
tweet in modern Latin, in declension.
O Domine, O Magister - we aspiring angels sing
with one tongue, forever young,
let us follow better things.
In saintly word and perfect grammar,
to Academia's lofty space.
The trivium, quadrivium, all baser
thoughts now to efface.
O Domine, O Magister - we aspiring angels sing
with one tongue, forever young,
let us follow better things.
Cruel Bunter-bashing, cane-a-thrashing,
lines, detention, soon forgot.
O dark ploy! This grammar school boy
has paid the price and bought the lot.
In the quiet hours of life's twilight,
old school ties and photographs,
I call to mind the sore behind, the
tears, the last and longest laughs.
Empty desks and inkwells, darkened
chapels, cobweb corridors silent now.
Ghostly purple robes and dusty trencher,
what could be holier than thou?
O Domine, O Magister - we aspiring angels sing
with one tongue, forever young,
let us follow better things.
Meliora sequamur: may we follow better things.
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- Homo Erraticus
- Thick As a Brick 2
- Miscellaneous
- Walk Into Light
- The Best Of Acoustic Jethro Tull
- The Secret Language Of Birds
- Progressive Rock
- Prog Rock Christmas Explosion
- This Is Space Rock
- Warriors Of Rock
- Prog Rock Christmas
- Classic Rock Mega Hits
- Prog Rock Avant-Garde Music
- 60s & 70s Acid Flash
- Prog Rock Xmas
- Thick As a Brick - Live In Iceland
- Postcard Day
- Repertoire: 15th Anniversary Sampler 1988-2003
- The Best of Acoustic Jethro Tull (Remastered)
- Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull